The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult? — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men:… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
This book blew me away. Kelly Parra writes with the keen eye of an artist. Graffiti Girl is warm, gutsy, and true-to-life… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect. — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult,… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
So we went off and made this movie ["Jim Younger"], and I've gotta tell ya, it's as much fun as I've ever… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like,… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image